2006 Top 50 For Raleigh
2006 was another phenomenal year for our city. We had the most intense focus on Fayetteville Street ever, unpredictable sports stories, numerous honors for the area, great new restaurants, and plans for even greater things ahead. We started with a list of almost 150 stories and had to whittle it down quite a bit. So [...]
Triangle Earns “Geek Mecca” Honors
Word is that Wired Magazine has named the Triangle as one of the Top Ten Tech Towns in its January issue. The story will be online on Friday, but we’ll go ahead and spill that others named in the issue are: Austin Boston Los Angeles New York City Orlando Pittsburgh San Francisco (Bay Area) Seattle [...]
Congratulations, Bro!
As reported in the Triangle Business Journal, Morrisville company LVL7 Systems was purchased yesterday by Broadcom for $62 million. LVL7 is a networking software company that was founded in November of 1999 and has been privately held up to this point. My brother was employee #4 when he was hired back in February of 2000 and is still working with them [...]
Are We A Real City Yet?
Lamborghini in Downtown Raleigh Snapped a cameraphone pic of this little number Friday afternoon on Hargett St. in Downtown Raleigh. It’s a new Lamborghini Gallardo which, according to some friends who work in the area, has been spotted quite regularly down there. It’s 512 horsepower and 376 pound-feet of torque will rocket you from [...]
Design Expo Brings “Hidden Gems”
Saturday marked the beginning of Design Expo Raleigh ’06; a two week celebration of the designers who call the Triangle home. The theme for this year’s inaugural event is “Hidden Gems: Great Design in Our Own Backyard.” We have a powerful and wonderful design community – it’s time for the rest of the world to [...]
